ABC kicked off the current Marvel Television’ live-action series ramp-up with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which is heading into its sixth season, to air next summer. With Agent Carter and Inhumans gone, there will be no Marvel series on ABC during the 2018-19 broadcast season schedule for the first time since the launch…

The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. panel at Wondercon was different from other some of its past appearances at past cons. For the first time at any confab, S.H.I.E.L.D. mainstay Clark Gregg was not present on the panel as he was in D.C. for March for Our Lives — but he did send a message to the fans via video. In addition…

While Marvel has had a lot of TV success with the Netflix series and recently Hulu’s Runaways, Fox’s The Gifted and FX’s Legion, the track record of Marvel dramas on corporate sibling ABC has been mixed. The strongest series has been Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., whose renewal prospects are looking promising, judging by…

Powers Boothe, a versatile character actor who won an Emmy for portraying cult leader Jim Jones and more recently appeared on ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., has died of natural causes in Los Angeles. He was 68. Beau Bridges tweeted the news Sunday, saluting him as “a dear friend, great actor, devoted father…

We are on the cusp of the annual flurry of renewals and cancellations when the fate of dozens of series will be decided within just a few days. Here is one more look at the broadcast scripted series whose fate beyond this season has not been determined yet, along with assessment of their chances. You can stay up to…

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is gearing up to introduce a new character in its upcoming Season 4 episode, titled "What if…" On Saturday, the newest episode of the ABC superhero series was screened to attendees at WonderCon in Anaheim, California, where it was revealed that Mallory Jansen will play Madame Hydra…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ended its Season 4 LMD pod with a shocker that no one saw coming. After perishing in the Season 3 finale, it looks like a certain specialist, who was secretly a HYDRA agent, will be returning to the series. “Self…

Snapshot (updated with finals): New series premieres: This Is Us (2.8 in 18-49, 10 million), Bull (2.2, 15.6 million); Returning series premieres all down; NBC's The Voice (3.4 in 18-49) and CBS’ NCIS (16.0 million viewers) top night. The 100 million-plus views for the trailer of This Is Us translated into eyeballs…

Powers Boothe (Sin City, Deadwood) has joined Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. in a recurring role. He will play Gideon Malick, a notorious man whose loyalties remain a mystery. In the aftermath of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s battle with Jiaying and the Inhumans, Director Coulson will search for more powered people and face threats…

Update, 4:15PM In a very clever way to reveal what’s upcoming for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Comic-Con panel cut to a video of co-creators Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen chill-laxing in the writers room, thinking of what to do in season 3. Whedon was throwing darts at a board filled with faces of the…

With a long-ranging and eclectic career under his belt–from David Lynch's Dune in 1984, to Twin Peaks, The Doors, Hamlet and Sex and the City to name a few–Kyle MacLachlan could afford to rest on his laurels and relax, but instead he's recently been hard at work on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, a show MacLachlan particularly…

EXCLUSIVE: As ABC and Marvel are prepping a spinoff from sophomore drama Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., I have learned that Season 2 cast additions to the mothership series Adrianne Palicki and Nick Blood are finalizing deals to headline the offshoot. Palicki and Blood’s characters Lance Hunter and Barbara “Bobbi” Morse aka…